Challenges in eLearning Analytics: How KloudLearn can help overcome them?

As the world is still trying hard to come out of the limbo created by a pandemic, the e-learning industry has unsurprisingly flourished. Employees have cocooned themselves in their homes and are working in a way that there is no difference in business before and after the pandemic struck. Thanks to e-learning technologies such as LMSs, the training and development did not suffer too.

While we are talking about eLearning, most of us would agree (especially those who have used an LMS before as admin), that the biggest attraction offered by an LMS is its capability to track the performance of their learners. Imagine getting reports of not only the scores of the learners but their attendance, their weak areas, their favorite lessons, etc.

But eLearning analytics is not without challenges. Here are some of the challenges encountered by most organizations who manage analytics in an LMS -

Unable to generate reports that meet everyone’s purpose

Most LMSs are capable to capture extensive data about the learners and courses. But the problem lies in the ability of people to understand these huge piles of data especially when it is not represented in the required form.

For example, imagine an LMS that has captured the scores of 300 test-takers this month and displayed in a tabular format. Now, this data might not interest most employees in an organization as not everyone will have the expertise to interpret these data. The need of the hour is to convert these data into a meaningful report that is -

• Simple enough for novice employees in the organization to understand.
• Informative enough for the mid-level management to take action.
• Should be customizable to show only the relevant information to the top management.

On top of it, not everyone will be able to navigate through an LMS, generate data, push them into business intelligence tools like Tableau, generate reports, and then come up with solutions. Some of the most common concerns highlighted by organizations are that they are not sure what to measure and how to measure. Without adequate data competency, learning analytics is of no use. Hiring a data analyst just for the L&D department is not feasible and practical for 99% of organizations.

Thankfully, KloudLearn addresses this issue by offering the below solutions -

• You can download a CSV version of the reports that’s easy to read for anyone. This is ideal for those who find it difficult to navigate through LMS to generate reports.
• Lets you customize the report the way you want with only those fields that you or the management likes to see.
• You can generate reports at the user level, organization level, and even course level to ensure that it is quite easy to interpret.
• The data is presented in the form of charts that are visually appealing and easy to understand.

Wastage of Resources

Even if there are members in an organization who can interpret the stored data in an LMS and convert it into reports, it comes at a cost — precious time of these members. And this is not a few minutes we are talking about. Generating reports and making it consumable for everyone is no easy task, it might take hours of hard work. These precious hours can be utilized for better work if the LMS can do their work. KloudLearn can generate publish-ready reports that need minimal efforts from the members saving their time in processing it.

Expensive

Analytics is an expensive business. Several costs are involved in it, right from hiring members for managing reports to tools that can store the data. Organizations, especially if they are on a shoe-string budget in L&D, will not be able to afford the entire tracking process. At the same time, not tracking the performance also has dire consequences. This is where KloudLearn as an LMS can help. Apart from storing the data (Yes, it is also a database for all your user data), it helps you to generate reports in a single click. The best part is, it is reasonably priced and suited for any type of organization. Want to know more about the pricing? Fill out our contact form and our experts will get in touch with you in no time.